Oh, I've forgotten about my own communication problem. I can get too absorbed with things (maybe I'm playing at programming, maybe I'm falling out with someone over here..) and I may get asked a question in the middle of it.

I'm   pretty good at giving a "Yes" or "No" without taking in what I've been asked. I just seem to give the response that I feel will satisfy the other party.

It's a sort of of "autopilot" I suppose, until you   get told "you had agreed you would do that.. " Trouble is, I probably had agreed...